Speed dating
 

Any of you other single people tried speed dating? That is an event with other singles and you get a few minutes with each of the members of the opposite sex before a bell rings and you have to move on.

I went to my first one this week. It was enjoyable, but it became a blur about half way through. You take notes and then submit a list of those you would like to get to know better. They do the same, and in a few days you get an E-mail with those who chose you also.

At the end, I was not sure how many I should mark as a yes. After 4 or 5 minutes I felt like quite a few still had potential. If you mark too few, you might not get a match. If you mark too many, you won't be able to follow up with all of them in a reasonable time. (With my schedule it can take a couple of weeks to fit in a date).

I was just wondering what experience others might have had.

I've never heard of such a thing, but it sounds interesting and most likely something I would like to do...

thats amazing, i'd love to try it.

It's big out here on the Coast. Believe it or not, it was originally instituted through synagogues as a way of matching up nice Jewish boys with nice Jewish girls; everybody was too busy having a career to find other marriageable Jews, and the synagogues began to worry about the next generation.

I have not done it (married), but I have a friend who went through it. He got a couple of calls out of it, and one turned into something that lasted for a while.

My advice: don't worry about strategy, just mark the ones you'd honestly like to spend time with, and let the chips fall where they may.

I've heard of it, but I've never tried it. There's just something about meeting someone for 5 minutes and then deciding whether you like them better than the other person you just met for 5 minutes. Shrug. :confused:

actually the idea is great, because I think 90% of the problem with people is they just don't know how to get their foot in the door.

Hmm..I wonder if Atlanta has something like that.

I actually tried this last thursday. I haven't heard back from it yet but i'm not expecting a reply until tuesday or wednesday.

I usually have problems approching girls so I really enjoyed it. I got to meet alot of girls that i probably wouldn't have met otherwise.

Out of the 9 or 10 people I met I felt that 5 had potential. So, hopefully I will get 2 or 3 responses back this week.

Overall I felt it was a positive experience and I would definately reccomend it to any singles out there.

Interesting. sounds fun. I wonder if my wife would mind... ;)

had some friends who went to that stuff... eh was their reaction

I'll try my hand at internet dating for now.

One of my buddies went to one of those things. He said the girls he met were friend material, but not much more.

I dunno, all of these dating tricks just seem a little desperate. I say, go to a bar with the rest of the single world!

/me is glad he got married right out of college and doesn't have to deal with all this BS.

i heard about it on tv about some report on dating. heh. it sounds interesting and definately milks the first impressions/instinct thing. i might try it if i knew how to be a part of it.... sounds fun :-D but i don't believe in *finding* someone to date really. it'll happen when it happens.

sounds like an interesting way to meet people. Though, with only 2-3 minutes with other people I'd probably flounder :)

The one I went to was at Vinyl in midtown. It is on West Peachtree in the Earthlink building. Check out Match.com; they evidently are going to do this monthly or so. They have three age ranges, each time there is a slightly older range for the men than for the women.